It was just a few weeks after Jordan Henderson’s 18th birthday when he was confronted by one of the most intimidating sights in football.
After being part of a Sunderland team who had just lost comfortably to non-league Gateshead in a pre-season friendly, Henderson found himself in the eye of a Roy Keane storm in July 2008.
A snarling, angry Keane is surely the last thing any young hopeful wants to be subjected to, particularly when he is your manager and you've just lost in abject fashion to a side over 100 places below you in the rankings of English football, but then Henderson has always been built of stronger stuff than your average teenage fledgling.